Sebastian Vettel will appear on David Letterman’s famous New York talkshow ‘Late Show’ next week.

The reigning and back-to-back world champion’s appearance will be on Monday, the day after the Canadian grand prix in Montreal, a spokesman for the Red Bull team confirmed. Read the rest of this entry »

Former F1 driver Takuma Sato almost won Sunday’s running of the fabled Indy 500.

Instead, the Japanese 35-year-old, the former Jordan, Honda and Super Aguri driver until 2008, crashed into the wall after an audacious last-lap attempt to pass Dario Franchitti, who went on to win under yellow flags. Read the rest of this entry »

Takuma Sato and Danica Patrick will start on the front row of tonight’s Izod IndyCar Series race at Iowa Speedway. The interesting thing is, Sato isn’t necessarily the surprise. Read the rest of this entry »

Takuma Sato came up 10 minutes short of potentially claiming his first IZOD IndyCar Series victory
Tagliani in 19th place

Will Power, not usually one to pay attention to time, said “obrigado.”Power, the pole sitter and re-start leader of the rain-postponed Itaipava São Paulo Indy 300 presented by Nestle, came into the pits for a splash of fuel on Lap 36 (the race resumed on Lap 15). Read the rest of this entry »

“Formula one and all its problems is way down the list of priorities” – Alonso

The formula one world has expressed shock and sadness amid the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. The disaster struck while the F1 world, including Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi, was testing in Barcelona late last week. Read the rest of this entry »

Jacques Villeneuve has denied he threw away a good chance to return to formula one in 2011.

A French Canadian radio commentator had implied that the 1997 world champion was offered the Indycar drive in Lotus colours this year and would then have progressed to F1 when the sports car marque announced its 2011 tie-up with Renault. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting in the back of grid in 23rd position, Canadian driver Alex Tagliani moved up the field in the penultimate race of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar schedule to finish 13th in the Indy Japan 300 held Sunday at the 2.414-km Twin Ring Motegi oval located 130 kilometers north of Tokyo in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

“From where we are starting for Saturday’s race we can definitely make it to the front.” – Alex Tagliani

On his first-ever visit to the 2.414-km Kentucky Speedway tri-oval, Canadian Alex Tagliani placed his No 77 Bowers & Wilkins Dallara in 13th position in Friday’s lone qualifying session. Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Dixon was quickest in opening practice for this weekend’s Honda Indy Toronto IndyCar street race, despite tangling with Takuma Sato at the end of the hour. Contact between Dixon and Sato at Turn 6 resulted in the KV car spin around in front of Dixon’s Ganassi Dallara and come to a halt blocking it. The following Bertrand Baguette (Conquest) then slid into the rear of Dixon’s car in the traffic jam. Read the rest of this entry »

Conquest Racing rookies, Mario Romancini and Bertrand Baguette, will get their first chance to run an IZOD IndyCar Series car on an oval when they participate in the all-rookie oval test at Kansas Speedway on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Once upon a time (last week) at the Lotus headquarters in Hethel. The Communications Team were hard at work thinking about the kinds of things communications people think about. Imagine the scene….. Read the rest of this entry »

Driving the Lotus-Cosworth IndyCar will be the former F1 driver Takuma Sato.

Lotus and Cosworth have entered into a new technical and commercial partnership with established IndyCar competitors KV Racing Technology to run in the 2010 IndyCar Series. Read the rest of this entry »

Takuma Sato completed his first ever IRL test, he finished an impressive 6th place overall.

The 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series testing season got off to a positive start when Team Stargate Worlds/HVM Racing concluded a two-day Open Test at Barber Motorsports Park in Huntsville, Ala., with driver Simona De Silvestro. The test marks the third time in which Team Stargate Worlds and HVM Racing have partnered up with De Silvestro in the cockpit and once again the recipe proved fruitful. Read the rest of this entry »